Celebrate World Hypertension Day (WHD) on 17 May and contribute to improving awareness of Hypertension. For the five-year period 2013-2018, the theme of WHD will be ‘Know Your Numbers’ with the goal of increasing high blood pressure awareness in all populations around the world.

The December 2014 issue of ISH Hypertension News is now available. Contributions include a report from the ISH President, Rhian Touyz, informing us about her first half year in office, updates from the New Investigator Committee and much more.

The ASH-ISH guidelines have been written to provide a straightforward approach to managing hypertension in the community, for practitioners in low and middle-income countries as well as developed countries.

We invite you to join us in Athens in June 2014 for the joint ESH-ISH Scientific Meeting. Prof. Athanasios Manolis (Chairman of the Organising Committee) is shown inthis picture with ISH New Investigator Working Group member, Francine Marques during the recent ESH Milan meeting.